Dupli-Color EBSP30700 Clear Coat Matte Paint Shop Finish System

I used this blue several years ago on a set of motorcycle race farings because it was cheap & readily available. Well I did not expect much, but really fell in love with the brilliance of the color in the Florida sunshine... Fast forward to 2025, and I decided to spruce up my wife's Ninja 250 that had seen better days. This stuff covers very well & the HVLP gun I got from here works wonders on saving paint..Only needed 2 slightly wet coats to cover the dark gray Rust oleum rattle can primer filler. Be sure to take your time prepping & smoothing the surface & you will not be disappointed.Bonus points, if you are refreshing something for the wife, since there is no mixing involved spraying takes less effort/time, and it looks amazing.

Great product to finish my build. Great quality and value. Nice color

Since my 2019 Tahoe is parked outside, the sun kind of wore off the clear coat on the hood. Bought this and the color and shine is right back on the hood, couldn’t be happier.

Guys,I've been looking forward to reviewing this. Let me start by saying I'm a complete amateur. Never painted before. First, I used around 6 quarts to paint a fourth gen Nova. I used this much because I had to do a complete color change, door jams, under hood, trunk, etc. There is a lot more to paint that way. I practiced on the under side of the hood and trunk. Basically, it took me about 8 weeks of weekends and one or two nights during the weeks to finish my project. I had a lot of body work to do, so the time it took me was pretty long because of the body work, my day job, and the fact that it was my first time painting. The second time will be easier, but make sure you block out a LOT of time and like they say, TAKE YOUR TIME.As far as the paint goes, I knew from the reviews that lacquer isn't the best option for durability. For me, the car will be in a garage, so it's less of a concern. The paint was fine, it looks GREAT, and it was easy to work with. It was almost impossible as an amateur to get the technique right... so for me, it was important to have an easy to use paint for my first time. If I had tried to use a premium urethane, I think it would look horrible, and I would have wasted a lot of money. All in, I think it cost around $400 by the time I factor in primer, paper, masks, tapes, plastic (hanging up in the garage, and for the car itself), propane to keep the garage warm, fans... basically everything I spent to make it work. The last subject will be the paint fumes. It was a challenge to deal with the vapor as my garage is attached to my house. If your lady is queasy about smelling paint, or if you have kids... you may want to make sure you can do the spraying times when they won't be around for the day. Lastly, I had some inevitable problems with the gun getting clogged and shooting drops onto the paint job. This just seemed to happen at random times no matter how careful I was. I'd disassemble and clean the gun, and it would shoot drops onto the paint randomly. I think that part of learning is being ready to see or hear when the gun is starting to clog and stopping before you shoot drops onto your paint job. All together, I really like the results, but there were predictable challenges and mistakes. Even though the paint job isn't perfect, I did it myself, and the mistakes are mine. It was an awesome learning process that makes me respect professional painters even more. I think this is a great product for your first paint job. Good luck guys!

Never painted anything automotive before. Never used a paint gun. Ended up spraying with LVLP. Highly recommend LVLP if your compressor doesn’t have enough CFM’s to keep up with HVLP. Learned a lot, still a lot to learn. Do your research if you have never painted anything automotive before you start. Product was easy to use. Didn’t have to worry about reducing anything or adding hardener since it was ready to spray right out of the can. Had to wet sand, cut, and buff to get final finish. Had good bit of orange peel when finished spraying. Don’t believe it was product. I’m sure it was me since I’ve never painted before. Will definitely use this product again. Really don’t expect the end result to look as good as it does.

1/10 would not recommend. Bought for a friend’s restoration project car that im painting and im definitely not impressed I used the paint for racing stripes and now have to sand it back down and repaint because the paint I sprayed is peeling and was junk. I went by the book on it. Proper flash times the recommended coats and dry time. And yes I know how to surface prep. Started peeling tape off and paint came with it.

Caveat: I painted a classic Corvette and this was part of the "candy" system.Okay, the missing link is that this covers about nothing when you're using it. You really need to buy about 10 to even 20 times what they recommend for coverage.I went through a personal trial by fire with this product. I wanted a really great paint job for a classic Corvette. This was a totally down to bare earth, frame-off, resto-mod where the paint job had to be borderline perfect. I wanted something that would really demonstrate the classy lines of the Stingray body style and look smokin' hot whether at a distance or millimeters away.This really is a good product. Unfortunately, I can't honestly recommend it for anybody but the most astute paint "guy" (I know there are some gals out there you can whip any guy in paint).First, by the time you add up all of the individual quarts of primer, base, color and clear, you could easily buy gallons from a paint store. And, it takes a LOT. I don't mean a LOT..lot. A really lot lot lot. I must have bought every single quart in the south to try to get the job done.Let me tell you that the folks at Amazon are just fantastic. I had an abbreviated "personal hell" when it came to ordering and actually receiving the paint. Since I was buying it like I had nothing better to do, I was ordering it from several different vendors, Amazon being just one of many. I literally bought at least 30 cans (not all the base, doh!) from the local Advance Auto. I ordered several quarts from Summit and probably a dozen or more from Jegs. It got to the point where I was ordering it from anybody who could get it to me. At least 5 shipments (through UPS) were indicated as "destroyed in transit" or some such thing. The Amazon team were absolutely fantastic in rectifying it to the best of their abilities, but when you're painting a car, you need the paint NOW. And when you're shooting lacquer, you really need it well before you actually need it...if that makes sense at all!So, I'd never go down this path again. Roughly 9 million quarts later, I ended up with a Corvette that looks a cherry Popsicle and is at least a mile and a half deep. My budget wasn't even approximately what I'd planned for it. I don't even remember the last time that $200 or $300 was a consideration for what "more" I had to spend to get just that much closer to the finish line. Seriously, I would *never* go down this road again. If you're dying for pain and excruciating torture, hey, we've got a product just for you!Don't get me wrong. It looks absolutely fantastic. You really just have to buy and buy and buy and buy and did I say buy? Please. Go to the paint store. Buy gallons. If you're doing lacquer you already know that you're in for some work.As a note, I sent a few emails to the Duplicolor folks. And, they responded. One message told me to get like 5 quarts for the base and another 2 or 3 for the color...as if I'd be done in under 10,000 quarts or so...yeah. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.Not counting screw-ups and waste and miscellaneous wannabe attempts at "seeing how it will look," I probably (I don't really want to know) bought at least 20 quarts of each part a minimum of twice and likely three times.Am I happy with the result? It came out smokin' hot. The 'vette looks like it should be eaten. Plastic fruit doesn't look this good. Would I rather spend about a bazillion fewer dollars with a urethane-based product? Uh...yeah...'specially if I don't have to do another damn thing to it.Short answer: The paint is great. Strain it. Shoot it. Keep shooting it. The fiberglass Corvette drank it like cheap wine on a really hot date. Would a metal car mean less paint? I can't say. All I know is that if there was a local store within about 50 miles, I was up in their stuff getting yet another quart of the stuff like a crack ho...between orders from everyone who sold it online for "serious volume." Seriously guys (and paint gals), buy from a real paint store whatever you need and get the DuPont so that you're actually spending time painting and not chasing. If you *really* want to do this, imagine whatever money you have in your pocket leaving immediately. It does come out frickin' great, but you will pay the piper and guess what, he's charging quadruple this week...The Amazon team are absolutely fantastic and helped me get more quarts to finish the job. They worked closely with me when the shipments were "destroyed" in-transit, which only happened like 5 times with several vendors...maybe the "UPS guy" is painting his car and figured out how many quarts it really takes?Last word? Don't even consider this if you're on any kind of budget where the final dollar amount has any sort of meaning whatsoever...particularly if you were led to believe that you can do your car with something like 20 (or fewer) quarts of the total set of products. If you happen to get through it with fewer than 20 quarts of each product, consider yourself lucky. I probably shot 40 coats of the Candy Apple Red before it was "right."Just to let you know, after 12 coats of the base, this stuff looked really good and you could almost see yourself driving around in a really slick, silver 'vette if only you put a clear coat on this stuff! Seriously, if you want a killer silver, this is it. Everybody I talked to thought that the 'vette looked fantastic in the base coat.

I posted a picture so you can see that you can get good results with this product, if you properly prep, spray, and can final cut and buff.Few things I have learned: this will get destroyed, almost instantly by gas. Even with 5 coats of clear, and about 4 weeks of curing before we even installed, still damaged it beyond repair with just a few drops.Second, buy Dupli-Color specialty reducer, and mix with all of the paint shop colors at 8:1 (paint:reducer), it sprays, and lays down just perfect.Third, because this isn't an 'activated' paint, you can save what you don't use, either using interchangeable cups systems, or pour into a sealable container (NOT back into the can if it still has something in it.Fourth, the Dupli-Color clear is adequate, however it does not flow and cover like newer products, nor is it going to be a great finish without some buffing. We used 1500, 2000 and 3000 grit sandpaper by hand, followed by 3M Rubbing Compound and 3M Ultrafine Machine Polish on Yellow and Grey foam pads respectively.Lastly, when you think you have enough coats, in particular with the clear coat when you'll be cutting and buffing, do more. Like double. The thickness is not great, so it requires additional coats to prevent burn through when final finishing.This was painted without a paint booth, using only the Paint Shop system, the DeVillbiss Starting line guns, and exclusively 3M finishing products.

love it, not thinned out to death like other colors from this company.

Very great color

Absolutely love the color went on nice and even , when i get my Detroit red wings decals ,cant wait to show it off at the trailers park. Thank you .Dont have a picture just yet.

It is hard to find in my area this is a good product for me. Sprayed easy.

NovaBC has amazing customer service and really truly looks after their customers. Thanks for your help